78: Real Life Entourage with Alec Shankman

Be Here For A While

Education, Comedy, Comedy Interviews, Self-improvement

4.6 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 19 October 2017

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Rachael's longtime friend, talent agent Alec Shankman, tells his career story on this episode of Be Here For A While. From being the owner of a nightclub to starting a brand new department at his agency in Hollywood, Alec's story is a wild ride -- and really great insight into what kind of winding path your Hollywood career could take. For any aspiring actors, producers, or agents -- or even if you just love learning about the entertainment business -- tune in!

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0:00.0	Hello everyone. Welcome back to the episode of Be here for a while. Oh shit I'm sitting
0:19.8	in an office building and it's a little weird for me. I feel like I might break out in a
0:24.4	rash. I feel uncomfy about it. But I traveled here, which was maybe a half a mile,
0:29.7	to visit my good friend Alex Schenckman, who is a Hollywood agent,
0:35.0	which is probably not the way you normally say that,
0:37.0	but I don't know, for people that don't know,
0:39.0	it just sounds cooler.
0:40.0	Who has been a friend of mine for many, actually you were one of my first friends in
0:44.8	LA yeah we met a what 12 years ago oh that is so long it you're aging me I feel like
0:51.8	I've probably lied about my age at some point on this podcast and now
0:54.7	You just shit you just I'm gonna put you on blast I've lived here for like 70 years, but he's he's lying. Yeah I've known you for like
1:05.3	of putting you on blast I'm glad that you were only 10 minutes late to travel the half a
1:09.7	block that you live away from my home. Actually a reason for it.
1:13.0	I typed in whatever the address, Sam Vicente,
1:17.0	on into my left.
1:18.0	Apparently, need to type in North Sam Vicente
1:21.0	because I looked up at one point
1:22.0	and I was on Doheini heading towards Beverly Hills for the yeah
1:26.4	Amazing. Yeah, you end up in Brentwood before you know it. Yeah and I was like oh didn't have in the north part
1:31.8	Whatever, sorry that I'm late. But it's great that your
1:35.5	office is huge. Do you run laps around it? So we just expanded another 15,000
1:40.7	square feet. We have a lot of space now.
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